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Blackberry & Pear Crumble

Say hello to autumn with this warming, seasonal pud

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 577 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Put the pears in a saucepan with the 2 tbsp demerara sugar and a splash of water. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring, until just softening.

  2. Stir the blackberries and the optional crème de mûre or cassis into the pears. Spread the fruit evenly in an ovenproof dish about 8 inches (20 cm) square.

  3. Cut the salted butter into cubes and rub it into the flour in a bowl until it looks like coarse breadcrumbs.

  4. Stir in the porridge oats and the 150g demerara sugar until evenly mixed.

  5. Scatter the oat topping evenly over the fruit, covering it fully.

  6. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until the topping is golden and the fruit is bubbling around the edges.

  7. Rest for 10 minutes so the juices thicken slightly, then serve warm with cream or ice cream.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pear + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together577 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Cream + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Oats + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs